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Saturday, February 7th, 2026

Live Poll: Do You Know What Time It Is?

Intro:

Since humans became organized societies, time has grown increasingly important. Appointments, holidays, traditions, and daily routines all depend on it. At the same time, science relies on time to understand how nature and the universe work. It’s no surprise that time appears so often in popular culture - from science-driven films like Oppenheimer (2023), to sci-fi classics like Back to the Future (1985), to music that asks what time even means. Time feels familiar to everyone. We all think we know what it is the moment the word comes up. Yet at its core, time is an abstract way we describe change. Which fact about time fascinates you the most? Please discuss here. For slideshow, please click here.

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Like in the list. It should be different from the other points and should fit into the concept.

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls4159623663/

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls4159623663/copy

Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/DjpbaIF4M5DisZSVZTly1w/

Oldest First
Selected Oldest First

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27 days ago

First I should say that I honestly didn’t know polls like this could even be made — that’s interesting.I recently read Time Travel by John and Mary Gribbin, and I have to admit that now I realize I really know nothing about time. After reading the book, the whole subject became even harder to grasp, so I might have voted for the last option

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@RezaKJoi​ 

Thank you for the interest. Maybe you're also interested in that one:

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls4153481041/

or that one:

https://www.imdb.com/poll/PMRgaSPdRUk1RFIh-ksl7g/

or these:

https://www.imdb.com/poll/Uzz7W4Ewlfc/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/xb9PTKFBYF4/

Maybe they take it, or maybe not. One thing is common: if not, they might not inform you.

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@Breumaster​ I checked the links; the polls were interesting👍

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The Turritopsis dohrnii, often called the "immortal jellyfish," can theoretically live forever by reversing its life cycle from a mature medusa back to a juvenile polyp stage when facing stress, starvation, or injury. Through a process called transdifferentiation, it regenerates cells to start life over, effectively cheating death. 

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the coolest thing in my opinion " the future to shape the past. "

Recent quantum physics experiments, particularly advanced versions of the "delayed-choice quantum eraser" and double-slit experimentdemonstrate a phenomenon known as retrocausality, where actions taken in the present appear to influence the behavior of a particle in the past. This suggests that at quantum scales, particles exist in a superposition of states where the past remains undefined until a future measurement is made, effectively allowing the future to shape the past. 

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one of my favorite sci-fi movies:

The Wizard of Mars (1965)

Following a "golden road," the crew discovers the ruins of an ancient, abandoned Martian city. There, they encounter the "Wizard" of Mars, a collective consciousness represented by a floating head (played by John Carradine), who explains that the Martians are frozen in time. The Wizard compels the astronauts to restart a massive pendulum to release the Martians from their suspended animation, allowing them to finally die. After completing this task, the astronauts are mysteriously returned to their ship, with the events appearing to have occurred in a very short amount of time. 

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@mariojacobs​ 

Thank you, Mario. I've put two of your suggestions on the list. Especially Wheeler needed a little research, but was the most interesting of your three aspects. It now is the option on position #20, due to masses of text to explain and not scaring impatient readers.

I also took your movie suggestion together with 'The Time Machine' and 'Back to the Future'. It's on place #19, due to the same reason. I've picked an image of the movie 'The Time Machine', a story of H.G. Wells, which has one of the most recognizeable icons, the inventor H. George Wells, played by Rod Taylor. I did, because I don't want to have only BttF-images, but also wanted an image that is highly recognizeable.

The Jellyfish .... yes .... I guess understand your intention. But it's a little too far from subject. That's truely not what I had in mind. Anyway thank you for suggesting. 2 more intersting picks! :D

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The Three Greek Gods of Time

https://medium.com/minute-mythology/the-three-greek-gods-of-time-60f236ae16e9

Yuga Cycle (a.k.a. chatur yugamaha yugaetc.) is a cyclic age (epoch) in Hindu cosmology. Each cycle lasts for 4,320,000 years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuga_cycle

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@mariojacobs​ 

Thank you, dear Mario. There are 2 interesting new options on the list now. Currently the others shifted a little downwards. The New options are: Yuga = #19, Greece Gods = #20

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@Breumaster,

This is an intriguing poll.

I'm inclined to go with:

Time may not be fundamental - John Archibald Wheeler, a colleague of Albert Einstein at his time, suggested that time might not be a basic ingredient of the universe. Instead, time could emerge from deeper physical processes, shaped by matter, energy, and observation. In this view, time is not something that simply "flows", but something that arises from how the universe behaves and interacts. The Wheeler-Feynman absorber theory proposes that electromagnetic radiation involves both forward-in-time and backward-in-time interactions, and that radiation occurs only because the universe as a whole absorbs it.

FYI: John Archibald Wheeler originated the term black hole. He, Kip Thorne, and Charles Misner wrote and published the definitive 1200 page book "Gravitation". in 1973.

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@dan_dassow​ 

Yay! It's an interesting subject. Since I learned so many thing here in the forum and also outside, I don't want to make succinct polls. I like intelligent subjects and like to make polls about. I also won't so much "Which role polls" on special occasion. The 50th Birthday, well, ok, but if an excellent person like Clint Eastwood has his Birthday I won't do such trivial polls. 

Instead I will do more heartfelt polls in that cases.And same for the physics/chemistry-polls. I have the theory that if there are more intelligent and heartfelt polls, more intelligent and empathic people will arrive here. The theory is about good poll subjects are like commercials for their special crowds. But my theory gets a little shattered when I look around how many empathic people are still around. (I mean not in the forum, but around my home and in media). There is more laughing about a child which stumbles, falls down and hurts itself on youtube, Insta, TikTok, than on an intelligent wit of Shakespeare. Very lower  niveau than in earlier times. That's bad.

But it makes me smile you like that poll. I like it, too. The last option's theory I made up myself over years. That's because I always had discussions in mind that stumbled around that subject. 

I took my brains and put all in I dectected as basic and proven wisdom and crossed facts, added facts. When I was on a wrong way I threw wrong thoughts over board, sorting out the right facts and matched them. It took about 20 years to figure that theory out. It bases on the question: "What is the progress of time exactly?"

The core was what happens all in s second? Movement, radiation, mass, chemical progresses. All these factors have to be turned back to turn back time. Time is change and to undo time, you have to undo all changes that happen in the timespan you want to turn back. On the basic of physics and chemistry. On an molecular basis and below. The only factor I detected which is special really is Gravitation. The pool-ball explanation is null and void, when you also would reverse gravitation. So that factor has to stay the same, somehow.

Only if anti-gravitational (levitation-) forces would work in a forward-timespan in a set, it would be a special situation I had no clue how to explain the paradox that would happen when trying to turn back time, ...  theoretically. 

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@dan_dassow​ 

P.S.:

Also facts like bin quantity, neutrinos and also facts that still may come into play because we still don't know about them yet, could change the theories of today. 

Science is a living field that always changes over time. Just look at the x-ray-parties in the 1920s-1950s when high society had special fun to x-ray each other. In that timespan radiation burns began to rise, until everyone knew that it's bad to x-ray someone without reason. Practical science, field tests. That's what I also sometimes think when I see reports or articles about "Yellow #5" and "Yellow #6".

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@Jessica​ 

Thank you, Jessica, thank you, Buddies. :D